June 15, 2012 DeepGreen’s Clipperton project would make Nautilus’ Solwara 1 project look like ‘child’s play’ Peter Koven at the National Post looks at the Vancouver-based DeepGreen Resources, a private company that just signed 50% off-take agreement with mining giant Glencore International.
June 15, 2012 Dia Bras announces termination of letter of intent to acquire Plexmar Plexmar announced that the letter of intent dated April 17th, 2012 between Dia Bras and Plexmar has been terminated.
June 15, 2012 Violence erupts at Glencore’s Bolivian mine It is believed that the violence resulted from Glencore workers trying to forcefully take back control from a rival Bolivian state-based company.
June 15, 2012 End of an epoch as Hong Kong exchange takes over 135-year old LME The three losing bids were all from the US and the deal marks a decisive shift in the commodities trading business away from Chicago and London to Asia.
June 15, 2012 Chrome ore China tariff threat to South Africa’s platinum producers A vital revenue stream for platinum miners — chrome ore — may be choked off if ferrochrome producers are successful in lobbying for a protectionist export tariff of $100/ton in…
June 15, 2012 The three highest paid executives in BC all worked at Ivanhoe Mines John Macken, who recently gave up being president of Ivanhoe Mines, was BC’s top paid executive and brought home a total $23.358 million […]
June 14, 2012 Xstrata: Copper fundamentals are strong and ‘should stay that way’ "It's very difficult to foresee what's going to happen to copper prices, but the market remains strong and should stay that way," Sartain said at a press conference in Chile.
June 14, 2012 Myanmar: what investors need to know American based sanctions removed, over $2 billion invested and host to the South Asian Games.
June 14, 2012 Scathing report calls India’s 2,600 mines ‘out of control’ Illegality in the mining sector has deprived state governments of badly needed revenues, threatened the industry with costly and unpredictable shutdowns, and generated political chaos that helped bring down two…
June 14, 2012 Duluth confirms massive potential of Twin Metals copper/nickel/pgm/gold resource A new independent technical report from AMEC confirms the vast tonnages and economic grades in the Duluth Metals/Antofagasta Twin Metals base and precious metals project in Minnesota.
BHP puts Anglo in ‘rearview mirror’ as CEO eyes Canada copper “I’m hopeful that in five years time, 10 years time, there’ll be further investments that we can make into Canadian resources,” Mike Henry said. December 19, 2025 | 12:32 pm
